Author: Carlos Morales

Carlos Morales is the Vice President of Global Sales Engineering and Operations at Arbor Networks. He is responsible for pre-sales technical support, design, consulting and implementation services for Arbor customers and partners worldwide. He is also responsible for sales approvals, sales processing, maintenance contracts, forecasting, data analysis and reporting for Arbor. Mr. Morales works closely with Arbor’s customers and strategic and integration partners to ensure ongoing product interoperability and to set the direction for new product features. He has more than 15 years of experience implementing security, routing and access solutions in service provider, cloud and enterprise networks.
Mr. Morales’ background includes management positions at Nortel Networks, where he served as the director of systems engineering for Nortel’s access products. Formerly, he was systems engineering director for Tiburon Networks and held systems engineering roles at Shiva Corporation, Crescent Networks and Hayes Microcomputer.

Last week, after Akamai confirmed a 1.3Tbps DDoS attack against Github. I published a blog that looked at the last five years of reflection/amplification attack innovation. I hope that it provides a helpful backgrounder on how we got here, to the terabit attack era, because […]

Special thanks to Hardik Modi, Steve Siadak and Roland Dobbins for their contributions on this post. Reflection amplification is a technique that allows cyber attackers to both magnify the amount of malicious traffic they can generate, and obfuscate the sources of that attack traffic. For […]

The recent DDoS attacks against many of the North American financial firms had some unique characteristics that put a strain on the defenses in place and resulted in a number of well publicized service outages. The escalating threat is not new. It’s been steadily building […]

A major event took place in Sao Paulo, Brazil last month. No, I’m not referring to the Miss Universe Pageant that also happened at the same time at the Hilton in Sao Paulo. I’m referring to the Futurecom held at the Transamerica Expo. Futurecom is […]

IPv6 is one of the biggest topics of hallway conversations at the Austin, TX NANOG conference last week ranking right up there with “what I did last night” and “did you try the barbeque from xxxx?” The questions on many people’s lips are “What are you […]

I spent a lot of time over the past few years on airplanes and one thing I’ve noticed is that laptop LCD technology has come a long way. If I wanted to, I could watch movies on someone else’s computer from as many as five […]

Most of the security discussions that I have involving infected hosts on the Internet tend to be focused around broadband users. It’s true: DSL, Cable modem and other high speed access technologies have given miscreants who own bot armies unbelievable amounts of bandwidth with which […]

I don’t know who dislikes RFPs more: vendors who have to answer them or customers who have to create them and then read all the responses. There aren’t too many things that waste more time than RFPs. I understand the original premise of these: they […]

There will always be jobs in security. Why, you ask? Because the world has an endless string of bad people, ruthlessly ambitious people, desperate people, or just people willing to go to any length to show that they can do things that they are not […]

I recently returned from the 2006 Gartner IT Security Summit and I’ll soon be heading to Cisco Networkers. I actually enjoy working tradeshows because its allows me to hear what’s on people’s minds, and it allows me to meet as many customers and prospects as […]

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